No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States

No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
ISBN-10
0801873185
ISBN-13
9780801873188
Series
No Place Like Home
Category
Medical
Pages
293
Language
English
Published
2003-03-07
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson

Description

Includes information on Mary Beard, black nurses, blacks, Boston (Massachusetts), Charleston (South Carolina), homecare, Ladies Benevolent Society, race, nursing salaries, tuberculosis, visiting nurse associations, etc.

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